Monument I Lyrics

Massive tension growing in the air

Suspended animation, peace hanging by a hair

Down goes the heir, it's time to pin the blames

And like a match unto a fuse the world ignites in flames

Time to fight, we're going off to war

It's time to fight, like our fathers did before

Make a stand for country and for land

Follow the hand and fire at command

Bodies that surround me make me question what it's worth?

The lives that we throw away some twenty years from birth

Time to fight, we're going off to war

It's time to fight, like our fathers did before

Make a stand for country and for land

Follow the hand and fire at command

What if they would face their own guns?

What if they would send their own sons?

What if we had more to die for?

What if they would fight their own wars?

What if we would bow to no crown?

What if we turned our guns around?

What if we would tear them all down?

What if?

Cut down in our prime, no reason and no rhyme

Names carved in shrines, great crime of our time

Bodies piled that represent honour's bitter end

Let this stand as a monument, never to repeat again

Time to fight, we're going off to war

It's time to fight, like our fathers did before

Make a stand for country and for land

Follow the hand and fire at command